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KCS has been given land by a local couple on which to build a new school. And as a result of the donation, a campaign to raise money to build the new school has been launched.

According to deed records at the Taylor County Courthouse, Walter and Laverne Rhodes of Rhodes Road in Campbellsville recently gave a 16.828-acre tract of land near Old Columbia Road to KCS as a gift. The fair market value of the property, according to the deed, is $380,000.

All health departments in the Lake Cumberland District Health Department area, including Taylor County, will host clinics today from 5 until 7 p.m. No appointments will be made. Vaccine will be available on a first-come, first-served basis and quantities are limited.

Thanks to a $32,000 Fire Prevention Safety Grant, Campbellsville Fire Department personnel can now train local residents on the proper way to use a fire extinguisher without using real fire or a real fire extinguisher.

The fire extinguisher trainer was put to use in the schools for the first time this week, as part of Fire Prevention Week.

An early morning fire destroyed a building at Campbellsville Country Club that houses golf carts.

According to a Campbellsville/Taylor County Fire Department news release, firefighters received a call reporting the fire at around 6 a.m. Monday morning. Upon their arrival, firefighters found the building fully involved.

The building and several golf carts inside were deemed a total loss. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Fifteen firefighters were on the scene for about three hours with four trucks.

Dr. Frank Metzmeier was never a believer in astrological signs. But, years ago, one patient challenged that lack of belief.

"I had this one lady who would never come to see me unless the sign was right," Metzmeier recalls. "She came in one day and said, 'The sign is not right, but this tooth is killing me.'"

Metzmeier had a look at the tooth and decided that it needed to be pulled. He had pulled a few of the woman's teeth in the past without problems. But, he said, those were apparently done under the right sign.

A Campbellsville resident was injured Saturday in a one-vehicle collision on Friendship Pike.

According to a Taylor County Sheriff's Office report, Amber Gowen, 16, of 902 S. Central Ave. was traveling north on Friendship Pike in a 2008 Dodge Dakota at 9 p.m.

The report states that Gowen lost control of her vehicle, crossed the southbound lane, overcorrected and traveled back across both lanes. Gowen's vehicle then traveled across two residential lawns, struck a tree and came to rest.

The County will purchase a new phone system for the Taylor County Courthouse. But it will cost a little more than officials had originally thought.

At last week's regular Taylor Fiscal Court meeting, Taylor County Judge/Executive Eddie Rogers told the Court that the cost of a new phone system for the Taylor County Courthouse is nearly $3,000 more than originally stated, at almost $14,000.

Rogers said Windstream is the County's provider and he believes it must purchase any system from that company.